Hi Sean, does your Palm ever display an error message while beaming? The only reason I could think that Empire (the IrDA listener portion on the Empeg) would not accept another playlist is if it had crashed, which could possibly happen if you were to interrupt the ir beam in progress. Is it consistant at all? Also, have you looked at the serial output while beaming? Let me know, I could possibly send you a debug version of Empire to track down the problem. What Palm device are you using?